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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
HANDSOME MRS. KATE CHASE.
Pen Picture of the Lady who Ruled
Washington Society Fifteen Years Ago.


Washington Society Fifteen Years Ago.
Some days ago an afternoon reception was
given by the wife and daughters Of Mr.. A. B.
Mullett, formerly supervising architect of
tho treasury. Among the ladies receiving
with the hostess was Mrs. Kate Chase, as she
now calls hcrself-the once famous and al
ways beautiful Kitty Chase. 1t was the first
time she had appeared at any social gathering
in Washington for many years, and this
woman, who fifteen years ago ruled Wash
inSton society as it never was ruled before
or since, was not personally known to one
fo.rth of the guests present Beside her stood
her daughter Ethel-a slim, indefinite kind Of
girl, possibly to DO pretty. but never to be
as handsome as her mother.
As for Mrs. Kate Chase, her beauty is of
that noble sort that age cannot wither Tor
custom stale. Besides, she is q woman who
has passed through great storms without let
ting them agitate her unduly. She is now
nearly 45 years old, but she looks ten years
younger. Sho has lost the first brilliancy Of
her youthful complexion, but she can't help
being superb and distinguished. In the day
of her power she was intensely feared and adj
mired, but never inspired or seemed to try
to inspire affection, SO that the luminosity
she awakened on the part of those who saw
her Tor the filst time III many years assisting
at q party was of n critical kind. No doubt
this suited her quite as well, because pity is
something she always disdained.
Sho is no longer rich, and inherits Chief
Justice Chase's financial liabilities in marked
degree The sum of what sho has now is the
small competence left by her father, who
lived and died q poor man. Whatever claim
she has upon Canonchct is worth nothing
now, and this woman who could order twenty
two gowns with all accessories from Paris
not many years ago, and repeat the order
whenever she felt like it, appeared the other
day in tho simplest kind OF black costume.
But it was nevertheless Elegant and appro-
pirate. becauso it couldn't be anything else
with Kitty Chase as its wcarer. She always
had perfect genius for clothes, and her
striking beauty gained effect from tho style
in which she dressed. Washington Letter.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
a Hard Row to Hoe,

Doctors arc not all quacl1s; you hav
got wrong noshuns about this. Debtors,
lawyers and ministers hay hard row to
no; they hav to deal with the kredulity,
knavery and fears ov the pcople-threo
ov the most difficult traits in human
natur tew handle. II was a doktor and
understood mi business, should doktor
mi pashunts and let tho disease take care
ov itself. Moro folks are kured this way
than emmy other. 1t ain't much trouble
few doktor sick folks, but to doktor tho
well ones is bothersum. Josh Billings.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
MARRIAGE OF UNEQUALS.

Women More Likely Than Men to Marry
Beneath Their Intellectual Station.
The genius of Milton never found a sweeter
theme than the ideal marriage of our first
parents in Eden, yet he who wrote so beauti
fully of the married state was himself the
victim of an unhappy marriage. Indeed
men of genius have, perhaps, been more un'
fortunate in this respect than ordinary NOR.
tails. because, living on higher plano oil
thought, it was more difficult for them to find
a helpmate equal to themselves. The same is
true, although not to the same extent, oil
women of genius who have married men in
ferior to themselves in mind, because a wo
mans nature has not only more endurance
but more adaptability in it than a mans
The man soon grows impatient of the con
versation Of a frivolous wife, especially if she
disturbs his mental occupations, but the wo
man often feels pleasure in the homage of q
commonplace husband, if only he be an hon
est and considerute fellow and with her more
than with man "pity is akin to love-" Hence
it is that there are probably more clever and
highly gifted women who throw themselves
away, as the phrase is, upon good natured
simpleton, than of talented men who fall in
love with women who arc not in intellectual
sympathy with them.
The world "marTies and is given in mar
riage," and the wedding bells ring on from
age to age increasingly, and yet how few who
witness the life contract of brides and bride.
grooms stopto consider the tremendous i'm.
portance of SO brief ceremony Upon the
mental, moral and physical qualities of the
man and of the woman may depend the &C
tions and results of actions of succession OF
human beings in generations yet to come.
The ungoverned will descends from sire to
son, and the secretiveness or cquisitiveness
uncontrolled by other qualities in the father
or the mother may make the thief, the liar
or the miser, who, few decades hence, will
be the black sheep of the family fold. An
ungovernable temper married to an ungov-
ernable temper may beget the murderer
whom society is forced to hang for its own
protection, but who may be as irresponsible
before the tribunal of supreme justice as the
lunatic is now held to be before our earthly
courts
1t has been said, coarsely, perhaps, in the
ears of modern refinement, but with perfect
truth, that while we take every precaution to
insure high qualities in tho higher types of dogs
and horses, we seem to think it a matter of
no consequence to insure a noble nature to
our own offspring. -Brooklyn Magazine.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
She Fixed His Blouse.

We had gone into winter quarters at
Charleston, w. Va. Some new recruits had
arrived for the Thirty-sixth Ohio. and one of
them was finding fault with the government
for not putting more pockets in his blouse.
1t happened that the wife of Gen. r. B.
Hayes was on a visit to the general and was
stopping at headquarters Some of the bows
told the grumbler that he could get a pocket
put in his blouse; that Gen. Hayes kept a
seamstress at headquarters on purpose to
patch their clothes and sew on buttons.
"Yes," said one, "the general is always on
the lookout for the welfare of his men. Onlv
the other day he had man arrested for sew
ing on some buttons. The idea of a soldier
patching his clothes when the general has n
woman for that purposel If you want an
other pocket in your blouse take it to the
general; you will find the lady there Tell
them what you want and you will soon
get it."
He was soon on his way to Headquarters.
whiie We watched to see the fun. The
recruit marched up and the general returned
his salute and said:
swell, my good man, what can do for
youg"
General, the boys told me there was a
woman here to sew for the soldiers, and
wanted to get pocket put in this blouse"
Before the general could answer Mrs.
Hayes spoke up and said
Certainly, certainly; leave your blouse for
an hour or SO and you shall have a pocket in
it."
When the soldier returned with the pocket
In his blouse, and the boys told him who the
lady was, we realized that we had carried the
joke too far and had imposed on one of the
best and truest women in the world
National Tribune.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19

\ Lady Railroad Stenographer Talks,
| have often thought that the humdrum life
of u stenoCraphcr had a tendency to break
down and eventually drive out altogether the
imaginative and postical in ono's nature and
make lifo practical in all its details The
murmurings of poesy on moonlight violets,
memories and hope, crate harshly against tho
whisporings of the chief clerk on subject of
drain tile and the tariff rate on wheat in car
loads with tho result of giving the poem a
dry flavor, savorinf of owners risk with o
rebate Leisure ho'irs cannot be devoted to
poetry, because thought must be concentrated
upon rate quotations, billing directions, UNI
stamped tickets, WI lie ones dreams are filed
not with the beautiful, but with mockinr
ghosts of rates, tart Is and waybills
Inspiration may come at times, but so GER
tainly will also com the rate clerk with the
request TO make a ektograph copy of a lot of
per cent sheets, dreadful things with strings
of figures, not nice, even figures, but with
lots of fractions to them which must not be
mixed up with the various other per cents.
Most of my working hours are spent in rail
road Office, and have almost given up my
poctical dreams tc look after shipments of
water pipes, stove castings, potatoes, butter,
furniture, hams, hides, stoves, oil cakes.
lumber, beer, egg, live stock, patent medi-
cine, ctc.-Globe-I emocrat.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
OUTWARD OR HOMEWARD.

Stu sre the ships that in haven ride,
Waiting fair winds or a turn Of the tide;
Nothing but fret, though they do not get
Out ON the ocean wide.
wild hearts that yearn to be free,
Look and learn from the ships of the seal
Bravely the ships in the tempest tossed,
Buffet the waves till the sea be crossed;
Not in despair of the haven fair,
Though winds blow backward and leagues be lost
weary hearts that yearn for sleep,
Look and learn from the ships of the deepi
F. w. Bourdillon.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
Farmers in the Senate.

The remark is current that Judge Reagan
of Texas will be the only farmer in the SEN
ate" but its propriety is most doubtful. There
are numerous other senators who have farms.
They do net work them personally, nor de-
pend upon them for a living, nor yet derive
any especial pecuniary profit from Them But
then neither does Mr. Reagan. His wife runs
the farm and says they lose money on it; for
the soil is too sendy to raise any crops, and
the sand is too poor to make into glass.-New
York Tribune.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
Silence That was Grand.

at was SO still in the hall, said Dob
bins, speaking of the concert, "that you
could have heard pin drop" "Was
there large audience?" asked Peterby.
1.-The house was half full" SIS that
ALP Hum! you ought to hear the silence
there when there ie a full house. Oh, it's
something grand!''-Tid Bits.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
LOOKING OUT.

Upon the heights of hope all day
My soul stood looking far away.
Enwrapped in such sufficing thought,
That even your absence counted naught.
For blue the sea of distance grew,
And clear the arching atmosphere,
Till could plainly see you, dear
Serene and joyous eyed and true,
And constant Gas of old knew
In the far away, which now drew near
Lily Curry in New York Graphic
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
A Young Indiana Self Torture

Mu2Zah, promising young Sioux Indian,
who is one Of Buffalo Bills attractions, re-
ceived word tho other morning of tho death
of his brother at Pine Ridge agency, Dakota,
and 10 began to mourn his loss in true Indian
fashion. He first uttered prolonged series
of yelts, shriclls and groans that brought all
the police in the neighborhood to tho garden
and aroused all the inmates of that extensive
structure who were taking a morning sleep.
They all know what tho matter was and only
tho uninitiatcd in Indian customs gathered
around him to watch the proceedings As tho
fervor of his grief increased he drew his long
bowie knife from its sheath and began slash.
ing his barred breast, arms and legs with il.
Whilo tho blood from half a dozen wounds
was coursing down his body and forming red
pools ct his feet, he sat down and with tho
Same bloody weapon began whiting out
wooden pins about the thickness and length
of a lead pencil, which he sharpered to
point. During tho time that it took him to
manufacture a half dozen of these he kept
up the loud, dismal bowling, expanding in
volume as the pain increased and the pools of
blood grew larger
When tho showers were ready he caught
the ileshy part Of one leg between tho thumb
and tho fingers of tho left hand and drove the
wooden pin into the flesh until tho pin pro-
trudcd. 1Io did tho same to each limb, and
also drove n pin through either cheek. These
he allowed to remain for two hours, during
which time mono dared to speak to him or at
tempt to interfere. Among the Indians it is
on pain of instant death that one Indian
speaks to another who is in mourning" until
after the third day. After tho Indian drew
out tho pins he rolled himself from head to
foot i'll his blanket and crawled into ono of
the managers, where lie lay all day without
food or drink, moaning and grooming and
occasionally breaking out into wild shrieks as
ho thought of his loss. Tho blood stained
wooden pins wore exhibited TO many visitors
to the garden, and there were many appDca-
lions for them to he kept as Inementoes
New York Tribune.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
The Sewers and Catacombs.

The project of tho Seine allows 800 excur-
sionists day to visit the sewers and cata-
combs in aid of the sufferers from the floods
in the south of France.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
To Drink or Not to Drink.

eyes, says jenkins. II am one of those
fellows that can drink or let it alone.
When am where it is l can drink; when
/ am where it is not I can let it alone. "
Detroit Free Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19

inc New York court of appeals has re-
amrmed former decision that the elevated
railroads In New York city must pay for
damages through loss of light and air to
premises along the lines. Chicago Times.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19

Sprays of grass may be beautifully frosted
by dipping them in solution Of gum arabic
and sprinkling them with powdered glass;
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19

In Germany during year are made 540,-
o00 real meerschnnm pipes. 100000 imitation
meerschaums and SOC, 000, 900 wooden pipes.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19
A Popular lIan.

The most popular man in Berlin, Germany,
is one who jumps from one horse to another
ns they so at full speed in opposite directions
In one of tho royal circus rings.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19

Celery root or celeriac Is considered REM
sdy for rhqumctism.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-08-19

Don't you dawnse, Fred9n
"No, dear boy; Pm invited out for m,
FACIAL expression. New York Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-07
A Peris.,abIe Cargo.


Mr. William Parsons, the lecturer,
was one day passenger on big
sleigh away up in Michigan. On the
road they met another sleigh not near
" so big as their OWN The little sleigh
kind of kept to the middle Of the drift
road. and the driver of the bic Sleigh
kind of turned clear outand kind Of
turned his sleigh clear over and plang-
ed his six or seven passengers up to
their necks or heels in the chilly drift,
just as they happened to be shot in
head first or feet foremost. Loud was
their wrath They wanted 10 mob
their cowardlv driver. why didn't
YOU make that little fellow turn out?"
|, why didn' You upset him9N why
! didn't You run over him. they de-
mauded Gould of done il, y said the
driver, cropping about in the snow for
stray valises. abut / kind o hated to
spoil his load" What was he haul
.'ing?" demanded the lecturer ''Dyna-
mite, for the mines" said the driver.
: They accepted his apology without q
division. and the work of excayating
for the buried Troy, the entombed
drcss-suit, and The Heroes o. Homeric
Age" went on in silence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-07

Mr.. Tilden frequently invested in
railroad stocks whenever there was a
decline in the market or a chance to
get in on the ground floor in deal. 1t
nettled him, however, to be considered
a Spectator. He would Indignantly
repudiate the characterization and say:
Il am IN investor, not Spectator. |
buy when | consider stocks are u good
purchase; then | decide ON the figure !
will sell at, just as Il grocer marks his
selling price, and / sell whenever |
can get my price, without reference to
the market"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-07
The Yesterday.

tell a song of the yesterdays.
IN tones that are sad and low,
ana the tale is woven Of signs and tears,
OF blasted hopes and heart-sick fears;
And many a voice from the vanished years
Thro' niemory's portals flow.
i sing song of the yesterdays,
With the burden of many tears.
And the song has the sound OF a tunerg
knell.
That struck with the chimes of wedding
bell
And mingling, make the weirdest spell,
When echoing thro the years.
l paint sketch of the yesterdays
In colers of somber hue.
And the sketch is on canvas now faded an(
worn,
Whose warp and wool are the years Ions
flown.
And the colors are mixed with the tear
they've borne
And the tints are of ashes and rue.
dreamed dream of the yesterdays.
That memory's whispers bring.
And the dream is of hopes forever fled,
That manhood's ardent fires fed.
An, age is a requiem over them dead.
That only few may sing.
But I'll sl,c a smile to the yesterdays,
For smiles from tears are won.
Such smile as will dawn on a young child'i
face
When loolked-for joys its grief efface
Or ITS fears, yet hopes, fora parents grace
With the rays OF the setting sun.
Pat Henderson.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-07
Mrs. Horace HclYar is still the

Mrs. Horace Hclyar is still the re
cognized belle of the diplomatic circle ut
Washington. A correspondents. writes
of cher large, ruddy, Alderney-cow
style of beauty" and adds: TO sec
her striding into her little coupe, her
$50 pounds of solid flesh and muscle
enveloped in .the rcddcst of red cos
TUNES, with her cheeks like two rosy
apples and her pretty but somewhat
stolid face glowing with Health and
complaeency, gives one Il refreshing
sense of perfect health and aniiiidl
well-being. She is What is commonly
called bouncer, but she hps the charm
of "a thoroughly weil-kept and we'll
governed human being .
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-12
Destructive Fire at Aspen.

DENvER, Colo, March 1l.-Aspen
special TO the Republican: Fire broke
out in Ryan's block, shortly after II
O'Clock last night, and the building,
with its contents was completely
destroyed. The loss amounts to $28 600.
Among the losers are H. Wilcox.
grocer, $4,000; A. Lessur, furniture,
$4,000; Mrs. Ryan, building and furni-
ture, $4,000; 0. ]. Downing, building
and meat shop, 5000. The insurance
amounts to $500 OF this amount
$4,000 was carried By Wilcox. There
were several very morrow escapes. All
the inmates were driven out in their
night clothes, and two were more or
less burned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-12
MCCORMICK & Go,
b a N K e r S
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH AND
HALEY, IDAHO.

Careful attention given to the sale of Ores
and Bullion. We solicit Consignmentg,
guaranteeing the Highest Market Prices, ~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-12
BEECHER BURIED.
The Funeral Services Held
on Friday.
ALL BROOKLYN IN MOURNING.
An Important Move-Fire at Aspen
Serious Strike in Prospective
Bismarck Wins-Etc.
Beecher.

EEW YORK, March 11.-All Brooklyn
was IN mourning to-day over the death
of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Public
offices were closed, business was en-
tire!y suspended and memorial services
were held in a large number of churches
in the vicinity of Plymouth Church.
Members of Plymouth company G,
! Thirteenth regiment, OF which Beecher
was chaplain, were stationed at the
door of the church and no one was al
| lowed to enter without ticket. While
g vast crowd of people was gathered
outside the church, lady members of
| the church were working within. The
whole interior was turned into per-
feet flower garden, and fragrant per
fumes of roses perVaded the air. The
facade of the gallery was crowded with
ported plants, the pulpit was loaded
down with flowers and floral emolems,
sent by friends of the different organic
atoms. The casket was placed on cat
afalque of white roses, white carna-
tons and smilax, directly in front Of
the reading desk. Not a vestlge
could be seen. There was nothing
cept the stiffness which pTevaded the
room and the hushed conversation of
workers. 1t was nearly 10 o'clock
before the doors were thrown open to
those who had been waiting without
for nearly three hours. The first four
seats on the right of the centre aisle
were reserved for relatives of the de-
ceased. Beecher's family were not
present, and the family pew was filed
with flowers. Mrs. Beecher was in the
church for few minutes before the
doors were opened, and went with her
sons before the crowd entered, accom-
panied by Rev. @. B. Halliday, who en-
tered the church and assembled the
platform, when the music ceased. DR..
Hall commenced to read in low, but
clear tone, the opening sentences OF the
Protestant Episcopal burial services.
The other churches in which services
were held were all crowded to the ut
most extent of their capacity. The
surrounding streets in all directions
were crowded with people waiting pa
tlently for their turn to gaze upon the
face of the dead preacher. It is esti-
mated that fully 5000 people attended
the services in the various churches,
and that fully twice that number gath
eredin the street in front of Plymouth
Church. In closing his sermon. DR..
Hall, among other things, said: "a
brave and weary heart is here at rest.
Brave of old to dare brutal force and
defy the violence of mobs and rufians,
il speaking for the slave. Brave to &C
cept the murmuTs and doubts of his
political friends when his conscience
prompted him to part from them. |
BraVest to wrestle along with g great
sorrow when he could find no earthly
help. We honor him for the courage Of !
bis former acts; we love him and won
der at him for the calm, sweet, gentle |
of these past years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-12
Bismarck Got There.

BERLIN, March 1.-THE Septennate
bill was read the third time in the
Reichstag, to-day, and was passed with.
out debate by & vote of 227 to 81.
Eighty-four members ASHAMED from
voting. The announcement of the
passage of the bill was received with
applause. All Conservatives and Ma
tional Liberals and few Centrists
voted with the majority. The minority
was composed of new German liberals,
Socialists and Alsatians.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-12
Another Serious Strike in Prospec-
tive

CLEVELAND, o., March 1.-THE strike
of switchmen on the New York, Penn
gylyania 81 Ohio Railroad is becomin 9
serious. This morning the freight
brakemen and conductors refused to
take out the trains made up by the
green hands, and all along the line are
said 10 be on the eve of quitting work
until the trouble with the switchmen is
adjusted. For several days past, occa-
sional freight trains have been made up
and sent out, but to-day nothing can
De done, and the prospects are that the
road will soon be blockaded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-12
Collections Made at Lowest Rates

Execute Orders for the Purchase or Sale of
Stocks and Bonds at New York and San
Francisco. ian